West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-10-27


destruction OF themselves, and all their fam
lies, and the whole human race. They would
say: IL am sorry IL Is going 20 cost me, and
my family, and all the worlds population SO
nery mnch but hereit goes 10 my lips, and
now let 1t roI over my parched tongue and
down my heated throat, the sweetest. tho
most inspiring, the most rapturous thing
that ever thrilled mortal or immortal y
10 cure the habit before 10 comes to
IS last stages, various plans were tried i'm
oiden times. This plan was recommended in
Jhe books: When n man wante,. - reform no
put shot or bullets into the cup or glass OF
strong drink-Vone additional shot or bullet
each day, that displaces so much l1uor
Bullet after bullet, added day by day. OF
course the liquor became less aud less until
the bullets would entirely mn uplthc glass and
there was no room for the liquid. and by that
time 1t was said the inebriate would be cured
w neither any one was ever cured in that way
know not, but by long experiment 10 h
found that the only way is 10 stop short Off.
AMI when man does that he needs Col To
help him. AMI there have been more cases
than you can count when God has 80 helped
the man that he quit forever, ard / could
count score of them here 20 day, some OF
them pillars in the house of Go1.
One would suppose that men would take
wSining from some of the ominous names
given to tho intoNicants, and stand Off from
Inc devastating in1p~3ce You have noticed
Tor Instance, that some OF the restaurants arc
called The Shades" typical of the fact that
ms morals in the shade, and his prosperity i'm
the shade, and his wife and children in the
shade, and his immortal destiny i'm the shade
Now, find on some of the liquor signs
IN all our cities the words: "Old Crow
nightly sugg sstivc OF IA carcass, and the
ulthy raven that swoop5 upon II. cold Crown
Men and women without numbers slain of
rum but unbured and this evil is pecking at
ther glazed eyes, and pecking at their bloated
check, and pecking at their DESTROYED man.
hood and womanhOod thrusting beak and
claw into the mortal remains OF what once
was gloriousy alive but now morally dead
'Old Crow" But alas, how many take
no warning. They make me think of
Caesar on his way 10 assassination, fearing
nothing; though his statue i'm the hall crashed
INTO fragments at his feet, anda scroll con-
tanning the names of the conspirators was
thrust into his hands, yet walking right on to
meet the dagger that was to take his life.
lhis lntatuatiOn Of strong drink is so mighty
In many man that, though his fortunes are
crashing, and his health is crashing, and his
domestic Interests are crashing, and We hand
him long scroll containing the names of
perils that await him, he goes straight on to
physical, and mental and moral assassina-
tion In proportion as any style of alcohol
Ism Is pleasant TO your taste and Stimulating
TO your nerves, and for n time delightful to
auyour physical and mental constitution is
the peril awful Remember Jonathan and
tine forbidden honey in the woods of Beth
ayen.
Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence
must be put TO the list OF temptations deli
cious but destructive. L have crossed the
ocean eight times, and always one of the best
rooms has, from morning till late Mt night
been given up 30 gambling practices heard
OF men who went on board with enough
money FOR European excursions who landed
without enough money to get their baggage
up To the hotel or railroad station. To many
There Is n complete fascination i'm games of
hazard or the riskiDg of money on possibii-
Ties IL seems as natural for them to bet as
TO eat. Indeed, the hunger for food is often
overpowered with the hunger @or wageTs as
IN the case OF Lord Sandwich. persistent
gambler, who, not being willing to leave the
dice table long enough for the taking OF food
invented preparation of food that he could
take without stopping the glme-namely, n
slice OF beef between two slices of bread
which was named after Lord Sandwich. 1t
Is absurd for those of us who have never felt
the fascination of the wager 10 speak slight
lngiy OF the temptation. 1t has slain q null
titude OF intellectual and moral giants men
and women stronger than you or /. Down
under its power went glorious Oliver Gold
smith, and Gibbon, the historian, and Charles
FOX, the statesman and in olden times ia
nous Senators Of the United States, who used
TO be as regularly at the gambling house all
night as they were in the halls Of legislation
by day. Oh, the tragedies OF the faro tablet
L know persons who began with n slight
stake IN ladies' par1or and ended with
the suicides pistol at Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces of bone with
black marks on them not knowing that
Satan was playing for their bones at the same
tlmei and was sure to sweepall the stakes off
on his side OF the table The last New York
legislature sanctioned the mighty evil last
spring by passing a law for its defense at the
race tracks, and many young men in these
cities lost all their wages at Coney Island
this summer, and this fall are borrowing
from the money tills OF their employers or
arranging by means Of false entries TO al lust
their demoralized finances Every man who
voted for the Ives pool bill has on his hands
and forehead the blood OF these souls
But in this connection some Young converts
say TO me: Is 1t right to play cardsi Is there
any harm in game Of whist or euchref'
Wen, know good men who play whist and
euChre and other styles Of game without any
wagers. 1 had friend who played cards
with his wife and children, and then at the
close said: Come, now, let us have PRAYERS
viii not judge other mems consciences, but
tell you that cards are, in nv mind. so as
ISOLATED with the temporal and eternal dam
nation OF splendid young men, that / should
no sooner say 20 my family: "Come let us
have game OF cards, than 1 would 20 into
menagerie aud say: "COme let us have a
game OF rattlesnakes," or into a cemetery
aud sitting down by a marble slab. say TO
the grave diggers: Come, lot us have game
or skulls conscientious young ladies' are
silently saying 70 me while ] speak: "Do YOU
INNS card playing viii do us any harmt
ferhaps not, but how will you feel il i'm the
great day Of eternity, when we are asked to
give an account " our influence, some man
snail say 20 you: Il was introduced TO games
OF chauce ln the year 1887, in BROOKLYN ut
your house and j went ON from that sport to
something more exciting, and went ON down
until ] lost my business, and lost my morals,
aud lost my soul, and these chains that Won
see on my wrists and feet are the chains OF a
games,er doom, and / ann on my way TO a
gamblers hcll' Honey at the start. eternal
catastrophe at the last
stock gambling comes into the same cata-
logue. 10 must be very celebrating to 90
into Wall street. New York. or state street.
Boston, or Third street Philadelphia and
deposiing a small sum Of money, run tho risk
OF taking out afortuuc Many men are do
ing 9n honest and safe business i'm the stock
market and YOU arr an igngramus NJ you do
not know that II is just as legitimate to
deal in stocks as tO deal in coffee or sugar.
o. flour But nearly ail the outsider, Who
90 there on little financial excursion lose
aL The old spiders eat zap tho unsuspscting
Hles ! had friend who put bis hand on
hii hip pocket AMI said o. ms in substance.
nave There tle value of "a hundred and
nifty thousand dollars Ills homo is today
Puniles What was th1 mattcrf Wall
street Or The vast majority who arc victim
lzed you hear not ono word. One great stock
hru goes down, aud whole columns Of news
papers discuss their fraud, OF their dis
aslert and we arc presented with their
features and their biography But where
one sloh famous firm sinks five hundred UNI
kho"n men sink with them. The great
steamer goes down and oli the little Ioafs
or swallowed Iu tho Same ruvuIfrlorff gDrr.